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How good was the Matilda's win on the weekend against France in the World Cup. It has got to be one of the most exhilarating moments that I've seen in live sport in Australia ever.
You see like all of the social media are just like everyone in the paths or like people on planes watching it.
It truly just took over the entire world. The kids are country so good.
It's so great.
If you missed it, they won, I don't know how you missed it, but have a little listen to this court Divine.
At her first World Cup.
Can write the Matilda's into history.
To the party scenes and everyone at home right screaming.
Which Australia who through I am teasing.
My eyes now feeling that excitement of because it was the longest it.
Was ten rounds this penalty shootout.
It is the longest shootout in men's or women's football.
Sporting history.
It was just going one for one for one for one and it makes me first filled with so much excitement and I'm so stoked for them.
The one thing that.
Is really crazy is that these crowds are bigger than any other crowd. They're bigger than men's crowds. The people that are tuning into TV, not just live and turning up. Since Kathy Freeman won at the Olympics, we have not had more people tune in to watch anything on TV now that that is truly crazy. But the crazy thing
is the pay disparity. These women, I want to say, outperforming the men in terms of who they're pulling in and the audiences, but they are not being paid anywhere near what the men are.
I mean, there's so much of this.
The thing that I think is so amazing is seeing with this last game, how many men and women equally were supporting the team, how many people were watching. And I think the debate has been for so long that oh, but not many people watch themen in's sports, so we can't.
Pay them the same.
Well, this just goes to show that that benchmark is well and truly shift now totally.
But you also can't watch what you don't know. If they don't promote it, if they don't air it, or they air it at eleven o'clock or on a secondary channel, no one's going to know that it's out there.
But it's not just about like knowing that it's existing or knowing that it's got a platform.
It's the investment that goes into it.
You know.
People say, oh, we can't invest in it because no one's watching it, and it's like, well, if you're not investing in the sport, no one is going to watch it. And it's kind of that chicken before the egg scenario. Well, listen to this former Matilda Michelle Hayman. She's retired now, but she's sort of dished the dirt on the pay that she received.
Twenty fifteen World Cup. You got into the quarterfinals after knocking out Brazil.
How much did you take home as a result of that tournament?
You really want to know?
Yeah, the big, the big seven hundred and fifty dollars.
Seriously, Yeah, there wasn't anything good back then.
And it's nice to see, you know, there's a little bit of change in the last eight years, but yeah, that's what we all brought.
Home each was the Big seven hundred and fifty.
You get more for selling a desk on Facebook marketplace, I mean I would yeah.
Maybe that's because you double the price and everything, but that is truly astonishing.
That was only eight years ago.
Obviously we've come a long way, and there are in FIFA in the football, there are certain countries that are starting to pay their women athletes in soccer the same as the men. So I know America is starting to do that, England is starting to do that.
Australia still is not. But listen to this.
Seven point two million people tuned in on seven to watch the Matilda's play. Seven point two million people. It's it's absolutely wild. I'm not sure now, and I probably don't know enough about football politics, but I'm not sure what is stopping equal pay Now that we can prove that this many people are interested, that the many people care, and that this many people are watching, what, I would love to know their reason.
I mean, I also know that obviously the man Tildas would have signed contracts. There would have been prior to them playing. They would have signed on for how much money they're going to make. I don't think anyone could have expected just how enormous it has been, how many views, how their merch has sold out, like there's been so much love for this team. But I think now this
set's an entirely different precedent going into the future. There's no way that any type of stocker organization that fie for the next fIF World Cup could turn around and say, oh, we're not going to pay the same because they're bringing in the numbers.
They're bringing in the more numbers than.
Men than men, so that the argument doesn't exist anymore. So we did a little bit of digging and currently the women are being paid forty five thousand dollars to play to play the games, but if they've made it through and they win on home soil, they get paid in additional four hundred and two thousand dollars each. Now this pales in comparison to what the men are still paid.
Yeah, so the men because the guitar the World Cup was in guitar last year. For the men, the men paid two hundred and sixty thousand dollars just for getting into the finals, which.
Is more than four times but almost five times the just for being there.
For if they get to if they win, they win the whole thing all up it. It'll be forty two million.
Dollars total, not per person, don't know of.
Course for the team.
Yeah, for the team, which breaks down to be millions each of millions each. Yeah.
Do you know? The other crazy thing is the women will probably be earning more and will one hundred percent after this. They're going to be laughing all the way to the bank with sponsorships and ambassadorships. And I love that their sponsorships, I have no doubt, will be more than what they earned for the World Cup, which is crazy.
It's nuts good on the tillies. I can't wait for Wednesday. I'm so excited.
Okay, they're playing England. The Lioness is. I think this game is going to be incredible. I'm desperately trying to scour tickets. If anyone has one, I want to go. We're so excited. Australia is definitely rooting for you. We're rooting for you, and we can't wait all right.
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